Stanislav Grof
Professor of Psychology
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Research Footprint
Stanislav Grof appears in 4 tracked papers (1972–1973), most studied alongside LSD, across Depressive Disorders, Anxiety Disorders and Chronic Pain.
Most-cited paper: LSD-assisted psychotherapy in patients with terminal cancer (212 citations).
Frequent co-authors: William Richards and Albert Kurland.
Background & Research
Stanislav Grof was born in Prague on July 1, 1931, earned his M.D. from Charles University and a Ph.D. from the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences, and began his career researching LSD-assisted psychotherapy in Prague. He later served as Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University, and scholar-in-residence at Esalen. He is a longtime professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and has written extensively on non-ordinary states of consciousness, psychedelics, and transpersonal psychology.
Key Impact
A pioneering psychiatrist and one of the founders of transpersonal psychology, Grof is best known for his early LSD psychotherapy research and his work on holotropic breathwork.
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